Posts Tagged ‘Meteorite’
November 20, 2015 12:00 pm
Posted by: Kara

Phil PlaitPhil Plait will be calling into Desert Bus at 2:00pm PST on Friday, November 20th.

Phil Plait, PhD, is an American astronomer and the brains behind the science blog “Bad Astronomy” and author of Bad Astronomy and Death from the Skies. He has been a part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, engaged in public outreach for NASA, and appeared in several documentaries including Phil Plait’s Bad Universe on Discovery. He has also in the last year joined the Youtube channel Crash Course where he hosts the astronomy unit.

Have a question for Phil? Leave it in the comments below!

November 15, 2014 12:02 pm
Posted by: Jordan

It came from the darkest reaches of space and landed right on our auction block, that’s right…PHIL PLAIT’S SHOELACES!!!! But seriously also a freaking meteorite!!!

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Chat user Omega_Lairon once again brought the SMACKDOWN on a live auction and quite fittingly SPACE BID himself up to an Atari! That is to say the winning bid was $2600.00!!!!!!!!!

 

 

November 15, 2014 11:02 am
Posted by: Jordan

We’ve got a ridiculously amazing auction happening at 11pm during our call in with the Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait. You guys are going to want to tune in for this crazy space themed lot.

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We’ve got a signed copy of Phil’s Book “Death from the Skies!”, A TARDIS USB hub, a Scirens wristband and a bunch of other amazing things. Not in the picture you are also going to get your own pair of Eclipse glasses!!!! Stare at the sun all you want (please don’t actually).

Oh….and one more thing.

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A FREAKING METEORITE!!!!! That’s right, you can have an actual meteorite that fell in Russia in 1947! GET IN ON THIS EVERYONE!!!!!

 

UPDATE: PHIL IS THROWING IN MORE GLASSES, THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT LAZERS WITH!!!! LAZERS!